In a perfect world we probably want three distributions: We have the capacity to maintain two distributions 1 Tumbleweed Rolling Distribution 1 openSUSE Stable Distribution
However, we are very limited on the number of people actually working on the Stable distribution, and so I think embrasing the opportunity to use the SLE sources for all their worth will do a great deal of good to get new people involved there, while simultaniously reducing the work required as we'd be benefiting from the work already done by SUSE. As discussed yesterday, if we are using the tools correctly, then we could
On Saturday 09 May 2015 19:50:06 Richard Brown wrote: maintain the two distributions. But that would also mean that in my opinion we need to split the distribution in multiple rings/modules. E.g. We were delivering newer version for the KDE 4 desktop environment by utilizing the power of OBS and created a separate repository that was building for multiple openSUSE releases (KDE:Current). Utilizing this was beneficial for a lot of users, but also for the team itself as that we only needed to maintain a single set of packages. However with this approach we always had to be careful that a newer version could also mean newer version for buildrequirements. Raymond -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org